Maharashtra, April 30, 2014: The Union government may have made elementary education (Stds I to VIII) a fundamental right by bringing into force the Right to Education (RTE) Act, but India perhaps needs another few years to implement....
Ahemdabad, April 28, 2014: In the last decade, Gujarat has seen deaths of 98 manual scavengers. This fact was brought forth by the Safai Kamdar Vikas Nigam in reply to an RTI query. Of these, families of 43 victims have not yet been paid compensation. ....
Chandigarh, April 26, 2014: Selvel Media, a private company, which was allotted tender for operation and maintenance of public toilets in the city, has filed a petition before the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday. In its petition, the company has ....
April 23, 2014: Despite significant public investment in urban sanitation, over 37 million people in Indian cities resort to open defecation. This column examines the existing information on open defecation in urban India, and finds that the most....
Mumbai, April 17, 2014: Expressing anguish over Maharashtra government's apathy towards manual scavengers in the pilgrimage city of Pandharpur in Solapur district, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it will shock the conscience of anybody to know ....
Dimpaur, April 17, 2014: Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) conducted “clean campaign” on water and sanitation on April 4 at Atoizu organized by Atoizu range students union (ARSU) under the aegis of WSSO, PHED Kohima.
On the occasion, speech on sanitation....
Bahawalpur, Punjab, April 15, 2014: The Punjab government in coordination with UN body “Global Sanitation Fund” will launch a drainage project in Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts. This was told at a meeting of the fund ....
Kolhapur, April 7, 2014: The focus on tackling vector-borne diseases this World Health Day is apt for the district that has reported a continuous rise in such ailments over the last few years. There has been a three-fold rise in the number of dengue....
Panaji, April 4, 2014: Goa still ranks an undesirable ninth among states and union territories in the country with 20% of the state's households not having toilet facilities within its premises, according to statistics of the Planning Commission. ....
Jaipur, Apr 4, 2013: After Rajasthan's dismal record in meeting RTE (Right to Education) standards in government schools, a national survey has now found that the state has performed poorly in terms of utilization of Central education grants.....
